Jake Schwitzer
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Executive Director
@northstarpolicy.org
Making Minnesota work for working people.
pinned post!
Inspired by
@banditelli.org
to do some bird photography. Had some fun with this Downy Woodpecker.
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We're gonna win a chip for Mike. It's destiny.
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Laura G Mitchell
2 days ago
There has been no de-escalation. Case in point: MPS is continuing to offer online learning through April 6. š
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Cooper Lund
2 days ago
Theyāre trying to run the Kilmar Abrego Garcia playbook with a five year old boy in a bunny hat because nobody can find peace if they embarrass the Trump administration publicly. Normal people didnāt like it with Garcia and they really arenāt going to like it for Liam.
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Norm Charlatan
2 days ago
āmilitary-grade intelligence tacticsā āPattern-of-lifeā intelligence Bro, you are eating microwaveable Campbellās Soup for every meal and crashing out in front of the Home2Suites while youāre geared up like youāre in Fallujah
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When are judges going to start throwing agency leaders in jail?
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Norm Charlatan
2 days ago
Yes, Iām buying groceries for multiple families now.
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More Perfect Union
3 days ago
The
@uaw.org
has won a tentative agreement from VW nearly two years after workers voted to unionize in Chattanooga. Over 3,000 workers will get: - A 20% raise - Better healthcare - A bonus of about $6,550 per worker upon ratification And much more.
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Aisha Chughtai
3 days ago
Iām on the scene at Franklin and 1st. A convoy of about a couple dozen ICE/HSI agents broke the entryway into an apartment building at 6am. No warrant presented. Less than 24 hours ago, Tom Homan announced the end of large convoys in Minnesota⦠Bullshit.
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Sarah Lazare
3 days ago
On Jan 8, federal agents abducted two workers at the Richfield, Minnesota Target. About two weeks later, half the staff called in sick to take part in the Jan 23 shutdown against ICE. My latest.
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The Minnesota Target Workers Who Walked Out Against ICE - The American Prospect
Target gave $1 million to Trumpās inauguration and has allowed ICE staging and abductions on its property, is feeling pressure from its own employees.
https://prospect.org/2026/02/04/target-ice-minneapolis-minnesota-trump/
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Jon Collins
3 days ago
āIf I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again ā this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.ā
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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Pursued by federal agents, suburban ICE observers remain resolved
After a frightening pursuit by federal agents, suburban ICE observers say fear hasnāt stopped them from protecting their communities.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/02/04/pursued-by-federal-agents-suburban-ice-observers-remain-resolved
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Rafi
4 days ago
To put this in context, he's pulling out more stormtroopers than the entire MPD has uniformed officers, and is *still* leaving 3x as many goons as cops on the ground.
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Education Minnesota
4 days ago
BREAKING: ICE won't stay away from our schools. So we're suing the federal government to keep them away.
edmn.me/4rBNI1b
#iceoutmn
#iceoutschools
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Heather Randell
4 days ago
We will never forget what they are doing to the kids here. āNeighbors are scared to leave the house. Bomb threats have been called in to schools. Events have been canceled. Friends are missing from classrooms. And parents have been taken.ā Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u...
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A Winter of Anguish for Minneapolis Children
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/us/minneapolis-children-ice-schools.html?unlocked_article_code=1.JlA.V3Dn.n20tiqW5SrO2&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Eileen Clancy š§æ
4 days ago
Elizabeth Zuna Caisaguano, 11 years old. In dreadful ICE detention for nearly a month.
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Matt Novak
4 days ago
They just blindly shot through the fucking door. "Additional photographs show damage consistent with a bullet fragment lodged in a bedroom wall down the hallway ā suggesting it traveled between a mattress and a portable crib in a room where several small children sleep."
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Joe Davis
4 days ago
Remember right when this happened and everyone said there was no freaking way the DHS version of events happened?
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Tina Smith
4 days ago
ICE detained multiple kids (all under the age of 10!) in the last week alone. Still kidnapping people based solely on the way they look. Still arresting parents at school pick up. Nothing has changed in Minnesota. Nice words from the Admin wonāt change that. ICE leaving will.
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Daniel Suitor
4 days ago
This is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.
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@laurajedeed.bsky.social
somehow got hired by ICE. The next mission? Getting a job at the US Attorneyās Office in MN. Their hiring standards are probably as low at this point.
slate.com/news-and-pol...
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Youāve Heard About Who ICE Is Recruiting. The Truth Is Far Worse. Iām the Proof.
What happens when you do minimal screening before hiring agents, arming them, and sending them into the streets? We're all finding out.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/01/ice-recruitment-minneapolis-shooting.html
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Elon, pictured here trying to figure out how to make rocket ships that are also revenge porn.
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According to this article from last week, they were down to 17 attorneys. So now just 9? In an office that usually has at least 50.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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Holy guacamole
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Matt DeLong
5 days ago
Eight more federal prosecutors set to leave the Minnesota U.S. Attorneyās Office
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The latest: Eight more federal prosecutors set to leave the Minnesota U.S. Attorneyās Office
The recent wave of departures follows the mass exodus of six veteran prosecutors last month who quit in protest of recent directives from the U.S. Department of Justice.
https://www.startribune.com/ice-raids-minnesota/601546426
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Tina Smith
5 days ago
Predicting that this week weāll hear more conciliatory words from the Administration regarding Minnesota (since theyāre starting to realize that ICE has become politically toxic) but everyone outside of Minnesota needs to know that nothing on the ground has changed.
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Carin
5 days ago
You love to see it
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Tina Smith endorses Peggy Flanagan over Angie Craig in Minnesota Senate race
The retiring senator is choosing a fellow progressive and lieutenant governor as her successor over moderate Rep. Angie Craig.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/02/tina-smith-endorses-lt-gov-peggy-flanagan-in-minnesota-senate-race-00759890
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Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl
6 days ago
Greetings from inside the economic blockade zones of Minneapolis and St Paul! Donāt look away, please. We need you. Itās been a month and theyāre trying to destroy us.
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David Brauer
6 days ago
This is how Tom Homan reacts to losing a court case to free a medically fragile 5-year-old who was used as bait to lure his dad so they could be imprisoned in a measles factory. Fuck any de-escalation stories that come out.
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These poor kids.
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molly conger
6 days ago
'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once
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Iāve been coaching youth basketball at this rec center and having regular nightmares about ICE showing up. And here we are.
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Minnesota Star Tribune
7 days ago
Hundreds of people spelled out the distress signal "SOS" on Bde Maka Ska in Minneapolis on Friday, Jan. 30. š·ļø Provided by Jeff Schad
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Serious meme potential
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Education Minnesota
8 days ago
ICE is quietly reshaping daily life in greater MN, too. In Willmar, more than 1,200 of 4,000 students were absent recently -- both white and BIPOC, teacher Tammy Knapper says. ICE detained a 19-year-old student for five days. Trauma takes the place of learning. Something must change.
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solace
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Nancy Yang
8 days ago
āIāve been teaching in the Columbia Heights Public Schools for 33 years,ā teacher Peg Nelson said, āand in the past 33 years, Iāve never experienced any disruption or danger to students like the current ICE occupation of Minnesota.ā
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Minnesota schools in ācrisis modeā scramble to support students amid ICE surge
Across Minnesota, school staff who were already overwhelmed are mobilizing to help families affected by immigration enforcement.
https://www.startribune.com/minnesota-schools-in-crisis-mode-scramble-to-support-students-amid-ice-surge/601571201
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Zack Beauchamp
8 days ago
Chris Rufo is so upset about the Minneapolis protests that he is resorting to anti-Nordic racism
christopherrufo.com/p/the-curse-...
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Sheila Regan
9 days ago
I leave my house and thereās a few patrol people on the corner. Down the street thereās a handful of adults standing outside of the high school with their yellow vests protecting the kids as they enter. More patrol on the next corner and the next by the light rail. All around the city.
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Norm Charlatan
9 days ago
The arrests of Don Lemon and Georgia Fort, plus the New York Times story about using facial recognition to take away PreCheck and Global Entry from observers, reveals how closely linked these two missions are. There is no separating ICEās twin missions of ethnic cleansing and ideological terror.
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Lawrence Hurley
9 days ago
ICEās job is immigration enforcement so why is it using facial recognition to surveil U.S. citizens?
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t...
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How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/technology/tech-ice-facial-recognition-palantir.html
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Elle Ess
9 days ago
Are you going to caucus? Repost if you are, letās see some numbers.
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smcgee
9 days ago
THEY DID IT. THEY ARRESTED ONE.
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Itās clear they all see it this way. Itās a ātheaterā to Homan. Bovino refers to his troops. The federal government declared war on its own people.
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Laura Bassett
9 days ago
This is so unhinged
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ceeks
9 days ago
āwe know youāre eating a hot dogā
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This is nonsense and his handpicked Border Czar just referred to Minnesota as a "theater" for his troops. So. Miss me with this peace talk.
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madi mcvan
9 days ago
Border Czar Tom Homan: āIām staying ātil the problem is goneā
minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/29/h...
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Cool another threat to Minneapolis' kids just trying to go to school.
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Kevin M. Kruse
10 days ago
When the president was calling all Somali immigrants "garbage" who "come from hell" and "contribute nothing" to America and therefore needed to go "back where they came from" did you ask him to "stop the rhetoric," Tom?
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Oh no! The guys with the guns got yelled at! The guys indiscriminately pepper spraying and gassing unarmed parents and kids had a whistle blown at them! In theater!
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I hate it when the rhetoric murders my neighbors in the street. Hate it when that happens.
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